Okay, so now that I've gotten high and had a chance to play with my Hex Bug Robots, on to the review.
The Ant:
Dave, Anton loves this thing as much as I do. He's baffled by it, follows it around, and after a few minutes, takes to stalking it and pounces. Its 'wheels' are designed to run ideally on carpet. It really grabs. It can climb over large extension cords too. Awesome.
But it's all about the spider, boys and girls. Man, this thing is the shit. You don't really expect it to do what it does when you buy it. I mean, it says 'Robot Spider' but is it really that? Does it really walk around? This thing is freaking awesome! It does just that! It walks forward, and in reverse. The right and left buttons on the remote rotate its head so that you can change the direction of forward momentum depending on which direction the head is facing. They didn't have shit like this when I was little.
It has already engaged in face to face combat with a 25 pound cat and come away unscathed.
Pictures don't really do it justice. I have to shoot a video of it in action. And there's a wide selection of different creatures of varying sizes. Oh man, I'm addicted to robotic toys.